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SAMUEL HERR, OF AKRON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONEIIALF TO WILLIAM H. NEESE,OF AKRON, OHIO. y

MACHINE.

SPEGIFICATION forming' part 0f Letters Patent NO. 695,556, dated March18, 1902. Application filed November 4, 19017. SerialNo. 81.073. Nomodel.)

To @ZZ whom, it may concern:

Beit known that I, SAMUEL HERR, a citizen of the United Statesresidi ngat Akron, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio,have invented acertain new and useful Improvementin Washing-Machines, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention has relation to improvements in that class ofwashing-machines in which a swinging rubber is arranged to bereciprocated in a tub with a curved bottom concentric with the pivot ofthe rubber.

The object of my invention is to produce a new and improvedwashing-machine in which the cleansing effect shall be produced byagitating the articles to be washed in soapy water and repeatedlysqueezing them between oppositely-disposed separately-placed slats,whereby wearing of the articles on or between rubbing-surfaces shall beavoided.

To the aforesaid object my invention consists in the peculiar and novelconstruction, arrangement, and combination of parts hereinafterdescribed and then specifically pointed out in the claims, referencebeing had to the Iaccompanying drawings, which form a part of thisspecification.

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar reference-numeralsindicate like parts in the different figures, Figure 1 is a view of myimproved machine in section at the line a: a: of Fig. 2; Fig. 2, a planof the machine with the cover partially broken away and the l arms ofthe squeezer in section at the line y y of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 asectionof the machine at the line z z of Fig. 1.

Referringto these figures, 1 is the tub or tank, supported on legs 2 andhaving side pieces 3, the upper edges of which are in a commonhorizontal plane. Secured on the outside of each side' piece,extending ashort distance above and extending beyond it at each end, is a strip 4.At one end of the tub is a partial cover 5, that rests on the upperedges of the tub, and to this is hinged a swinging half-lid 6, havingits outer edge beveled to meet and match the removable lid 7 on theopposite side. At the opposite end of the tank is secured a partialcover 8, inclined toward the center of the tank to cause the water toiiow back from the articles in the l wringer, and to the front edge ofthis partial Vcover is secured an upright board 9, to which,

to attach a wringer. The partial lid 7 extends slightly under the edgeof the partial cover 8, and is thus retained until it is desired toremove it. At the opposite ends of the interior of the tub are similarranks of upwardly-curved parallel fingers 10, the lower edges and endsof which are rounded to avoid wearing the articles to be washed. Thevback ends of these fingers are fastened to` a strip 11, that restsagainstthe interior wall of the tub, and near their front ends thefingers are secured to a cross-bar12, the ends of which slide verticallyinto and rest in grooves in the inner faces of the sides of the tub. Bythis arrangement these ranks of Vfingers can be raised out of andremoved from the tub when desired. v

The squeezer consists of two side levers 13,

united at their upper ends by a'handle-bar l 14 with a strengtheningcounter-bar 15 below it and at their lower ends by a cross-bar 16,curved on its under faceconcentric with the inner face of the tubV andin operation sus'- pended a short distance from it.

that fits in a bearing in the edge of the sides 3. Between the journalsand cross-bar 16 is a cross-bar 18. Ranks of curved blades 19 On theouter face of each lever 13 is a journal 17,

of substantially the same thickness and curv In operation, the tub beingpartially filled with soapy water,the articles to be washed are placedtherein, the squeezer placed therein, and the lids 6 7 put in place. The

squeezer is then rocked, thus agitating the' articles in the water andalternately'raising a part of them up against the fingers- 10 andsqueezing them at each upward movement, whereby the articles arecleansed. The lid 7 is then removed, the squeezer lifted out, and thearticles raised and passed through a wringer on the board 9. Y

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to protectby Letters Patent, is-

I. An improved washing-machine consisting of a tub having a curvedbottom, ranks of curved fingers on its inner opposite ends, the backends of which are fastened to a strip that :rests against the interiorwall of the curved bottom and near their front ends are secured to across-bar the ends of which rest in grooves in the inner faces of thesides of the tub, and a removable swinging squeezer pivoted in the sidesof said tub and having ranks of curved blades on its opposite sidesalternating with said fingers and arranged to be brought intojuxtaposition therewith, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination with a tub having a curved bottom of ranks of curvedfingers SAMUEL HERR.

In presence of- C. P. IIUMPHREY, C. E. IIUMPHREY.

